As ET is growing in leaps and bounds (yupi!), I thought it was time for an informal and completely unscientific poll to see who we are. Or where we are from.

A lot of us move around and have origins in different places than where we currently live. So for the poll below, just answer where you currently live. If you're on vacation or about to move somewhere, put the place where you will be living.

You can open a bank account in Euros but the currency here is still the lei, which is kinda cool because it's also the same word for "lions" as in the animals.

So a loaf of bread costs 14.000 lions ;) Well shoot that's not right because we just got the new currency, so a loaf of bread costs 1,4 lions. The prices on the register all show the new money but everyone talks the old money and it's just a big confusing mess :)

My bad on the Sweden, I honestly did not realize they were full EU now. I guess I was thinking Finland because of the Euro.

Great. I envy Germany who knows how to, and how not to, act internationally. Working together with UK and France make your policy stable and sane, whereas we are working with USA alone. A friend of mine in the Japanese foreign policy circle once remarked about the 1st Gulf war that Japan's foreign policy would be stable with USA as the anchor. I said, half-jokingly, "Do you really think USA would remain a stable anchor? I'm not sure."

Pssst...my friend here is keeping open a watchful eye for any such behavior. ;)
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Seriously though, you all teach me so much every day and help broaden my world purview. I am honored to be an invited guest in your home, the eurotrib home. I intend to always comport myself with that thought in mind.

Thanks Sirocco and to everyone here. I remember when Boo announced Eurotrib was going to start up and I was so excited I waited up till midnight so I could sign up.

At first this was all a bit overwhelming as there are so many countries represented and the politics and customs to learn about which is also why I don't post extensively. Unless it is a bit more relating to America which I of course feel more comfortable posting about.

I'd love nothing more than to be able to travel to Europe and other countries to meet local people, learn new cultures and as I know I'll never be able to do that being here at Eurotrib is the closest I'll be able to get to achieving that goal....so in other words-I'm dam happy to be here and nice to know I apparently don't sound like an ugly American.

"People never do evil so throughly and happily as when they do it from moral conviction."-Blaise Pascal